SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — During the Oct. 28 Salt Lake County Council meeting, the council voted to close four county funded daycare centers by cutting funding for the parks and recreation licensed childcare program.

"This is not a statutory duty of the county to provide daycare," Aimee Winder Newton of District 3 said. "We have things already in place. We heard about the DWS [Department of Workforce Services] childcare subsidy, which is a very generous subsidy for families. It's not our job to provide this service."

Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation offers several forms of childcare, and the program under discussion was the licensed county program, which includes all-day preschool, before and after school care, and summer camp.

There are currently four licensed centers: Kearns, Magna

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